Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 MacMillan pp. 130 The book is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I had read that as a child, first the abridged version and then the unabridged versions when I was older. As a child, I used to find the story quite fascinating and the illustrations in books…
Aranghya & Jahar (Bandahar Series I) Vidhya Iyer 2019 pp. 147 Amazon Asia- Pacific The book is the first in a series as the title specifies. It falls in the fantasy fiction genre. The tale revolves around the kingdom of Bandahar. There are a lot of characters and as many places. The story line is…
Hot Love Inferno Nicky Blue 2018 Amazon Asia Pacific pp. 144 This is the second book in the Prophecy Allocation series. A short and quick read, it can be finished in one sitting. And I think if you do choose to pick it up, you wouldn’t be able to leave it unfinished. The book, I…
Five Days: An Adventure Krishna Pareek Kindle edition 2017 The book is a fantasy novel describing what the protagonist begins to live as the last five days of his life. The events that unfold, part real, part fiction take him, and the reader, to a world where everything is unreal. At several points in…
The Horse and His Boy C S Lewis 1955 (this edition 2010) Harper Collins pp.112 The third in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Horse and His Boy is the story of a harsh ruler from where the protagonists- Shasta and Aravis, Bree and Hwin, escape because of their personal circumstances. It is a story…
The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC.S. Lewis2010Harper Collinspp. 92The second book in the Narnia series, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a beautiful tale of four children who venture into the enchanting world of Narnia. The adventures that follow in meeting Aslan, defeating the evil witch, and becoming the Kingss and Queens…
Harry Potter and the Cursed ChildJ K Rowling2016Hachette/ Little Brownpp.330Rowling’s eighth in the Harry Potter series is a special rehearsal edition script for a stage play endeavour with John Tiffany and Jack Thorne. The play presents the life of Potter and his friends and family almost two decades after the last book concludes. Relationships continue…
The Magician’s NephewC S Lewis1955 (This edition 2010)Harper Collinspp. 107Book one of the Chronicles of Narnia’s series, the Magician’s Nephew describes the beginning of Narnia. I was surprised to know that this wasn’t the first book of the series written be Lewis. If I were reading in the chronological order in which they were written,…
Breaking DawnStephenie Meyer2008Atompp. 700And this is where it ends. The last of the Twilight series, the vampire love story comes to an end. Unless Meyer ends up writing a sequel, since she does have forever to continue the story! I must say I am quite glad that the series is over. I couldn’t wait for it to…
EclipseStephenie Meyer2007Atompp. 559 The third book of the Twilight series holds no greater promise than the first. Maybe the books should be read as far apart as they were first published. The plot remains the same, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong around Bella Swan; everything Edward and Jacob can do make things…
